or consider preventing terrorism a very important foreign policy goal. well, backing wider background checks fits right on to that common sense list. >>> also, michele bachmann's back in the sideshow tonight. seems like she's kept a low profile since her presidential run, such as it was. bachmann spoke at a prayer event in washington last week and suggested that the attacks of 9/11, both in 2001, the big one, and at the diplomatic in benghazi last year were actually cases of, big surprise here, divine intervention. >> it's no secret our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment. it is no secret that we all are concerned that our nation may be in a time of decline. our nation has seen judgment not once, but twice, on september 11th. >> it's our judgment. seems to be a rather stunning conclusion, i'd say. anyway, bachmann had floated the same idea two years ago after hurricane irene saying that hurricane was a sign of the evils of government spending. >> i don't know how much god has to do to get the attention of the politicians. we had an